Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 5, Number 150, Decatur, Adams County, 20 June 1907 — Page 3

A Few Points on Shoes "’.-■ ' ‘ '"■ 1 << ~• \ Here is why we carry as fine I/ / \ make of shoes as the E. P. L I Sr '~3 ) ll Reed, because the better class of trade calls for it, and they Cf a? will have no other. This is I 'r—what they say: “I have been • ) wearing the Reed shoe for > 1 [ years and they have given me perfect satisfaction; they keep their shape so well! I do not care for a change of make; I know this is good.” F. B. Tague’s SHOE STORE

♦ ♦ + + <i , 4 , + ** + + + + * i WEATHER. I Generally fair and warmer tonight and Friday. ♦♦++*+*+ *4> + * + + Toledo, St. Louis & Western Railroad. East. K 0.6. Com. Traveler, daily. 5:22 a.m. No. 2. Daily Mail. ex. Sun. .11:42 a. m. No. 4. Daily Express 7:00 p.m. No. 22. Local Freight 1:25 p.m. West. No. 1. Daily Mail, ex. Sun.. 5:53a.m. No. 3. Daily fixpress 10:37 a.m. No. 5. Com. Traveler, daily. 9:12 p.m. No. 23. Local Freight 10:37 a.m. FORT WAYNE & SPRINGFIELD RY. In Effect February 1, 1907. Decatur —North Ft. Wayne—South 6:00 a.m. 7:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 12:00 noon 1:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 11:00 p.m. GET WEDDED TO THE MODEL WITHOUT A MATE W. H. LINDSLEY Ed Ehinger returned last night from a business trip. John Weber returned last night from a business trip to Ft. Wayne. Fred Hoffman returned this morning from a business trip to Winchester. Gay & Zwick shipped a consignment of furniture to Preble this morning. Mrs. Jennie Wiles went to Ft. Wayne this morning to spend the day with friends. J. A. Masey, of Rochester, arrived in the city today for a visit with friends and relatives. During the absence of Marsh Burdg who is up north fishing, his place at the Russell barber shop is being filled by Ed. Coffee. Miss Margaret Moore, of Bremen, who has been visiting friends in the city for some time, returned to her home this morning. During the storm yesterday afternoon hail almost as large as hen eggs fell in Root township killing a number of chickens and doing other damage.

If You Appreciate Style Jt and distinction in dress, yon will be delighted with the “Krippendorf” Oxford Ties we are showing. Made of high grade leathers, in a variefy of beautiful designs, they impart real elegance to the feet Come in to-morrow and see the new fashions and feel under no obiigation to W buy in doing so. ■ Oxfords $3 and $3.50 ® Charlie Voglewede TH© Shoe Seller

Yager Brothers shiped a large consignment of furniture to Rivarre this morning. R. L. Sweeney, of Van Wert, arrived in the city today for a several days’ visit with relatives. The Lebanon base ball team left last night on the 9:12 Clover Leaf train for their home. Miss Iva Steele and Albert Parker returned to the city last night from a visit at Ft. Wayne with friends. Arrangements are being made to build several new houses in the city at once, and the contractors will certainly have all they can do for the summer. Frank Cloud and family, of Kalamazoo, who have been visiting at Monroe, arrived this morning to he the guests of John Bright and family for a few days. All local ball players that are interested in the organization of a second ball team which will play Sunday games are requested to be at the Model Cigar store tonight at 8 o'clock. Julius Haugk resumed work this morning on Madison street and with good w’eather expects to push the work rapidly to completion. The brick layer will arrive Monday and will at once commence laying brick on the square between First and Second streets. Homestead No. 161)8, Brotherhood of American Yeomen will hold its first annual open meeting in the hall over Stoneburner’s Music store this evening at 8 o'clock. Short and interesting talks will be made by prominent citizens and refreshments will be served. The public is cordially invited. The interurban people are at present busily engaged in hauling out sand and gravel for ballasting purposes, and have a large force of men employed in the progress of the same. The very worst places along the track are being given immediate attention and will be remedied first. They fully expect to have the ballasting completed in two months. Noah Burris, of Carroll county made quick time getting into the Jeffersonville reformatory. Last Thursday he was as free as the air or the little babling brook, but that night he stole a neighbor’s horse, Friday night he was caught at Flora. He was taken before Judge Wason at Delphi and Monday accompanied by Sheriff Pullen, he went to Jeffersonville where he began a sentence of one to fourteen years. —Frankfort Crescent.

Ed Green returned this morning from Van Wert, where he attended the fireman's tournament. All physicians are requested to remember the called meeting for tomorwro night at the office of Dr. Beavers. Miss Alive Bentz, of Lima, Ohio, passed through here today enroute to Berne where she will visit friends. Miss Iva Steele is taking a week's vacation from duties at the True and Runyon store and her sister, Lillie, is filling her position during her absence. Mr. and Mrs. Abe Boch went to Ft. Wayne this morning to undergo an operation at the St. Joe hospital for tumors. Dr. Coverdale of this city will assist in the operation. Mr. J. O. B. Kirby, of Grand Haven, Mich., state agent for the HainburgBremen Fire Insurance Co., is in the city for a two days' visit and is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. James Haefling. The K. of P. lodge will nominate candidates for the different offices tonight and the election will take place one week from tonight to find out who will hold the lodge reins for the ensuing year. Beginning with next Monday the Randall hotel at Ft. Wayne will operate its dining room on the European plan, which has rapidly grown in popularity in recent years. The Randall is perhaps the first of the larger hotels in this section to adopt the European plan as exclusive service. Tocsin has a base ball team that gathers on Sundays and pursues the pellet around the gympsums. Since Bluffton's recent performances they have gotten boastful and declare that if Bluffton would only let them have a game what Ossian did to us would be a mere incident alongside of the deluge of shame and humiliation they would dish up.—Bluffton Banner. ■Next week Geneva will resound with the mellow bellowing of the spieler, the crash of brass bands and the plaintive squeaks of a merry-go-round-The police of that town won't work union time, the calaboose will be stuffed with merry souls, full of rye and every one will feast on ice cream and pink popcorn. In other words, Geneva will have a carnival. The lead taken by the Indianapolis Star in raising its subscription price has been followed by the two daily papers at Richmond, the Item and Palladium. The reasons set forth for the change is the general rise in the price of materials, paper and wages. It seems probable that other papers in the state will follow suit, as many of them have been barely paying expenses for some time.—Logansport Pharos. Wheat and oats are going to be fairly good crops in Indiana if sales of binder twine are an indication. At the first of the season there were many farmers cancelled part of their orders, but these cancellations have been withdrawn and in many instances orders have been increased. More binder twine has been contracted for than at this time last year, dealers say. and they seem confident the oats crop in Indiana this year will be one of the largest in the history of the state, while the wheat crop will be a good average. The largest body of uniformed rank Knights of Pythias can now safely be claimed by Huntington. At the meeting last night several more new candidates were received, making a total of 136 over 134 by Kansas City, Mo. Terre Haute organization has been workingsnight and day for the largest representation of numbers at the dedication of Knights Hall at J Indianapolis next August, but they have at present only a little over a hundred. It is needless to say that this is indeed a high honor for Huntington, a town competing against cities of much larger population. —Huntington Democrat. The county superitendents of Indiana will hold their bi-ennial meeting at Indianapolis on Wednesday and Thursday of this week at which meeting various subjects of interest to themselves and the school patrons will be discussed. County superintendent Opliger will attend. An effort has been made to get all of the ninety-two county superintnedents in the state to attend the meeting. A special effort will be made to interest the superintendents in agriculture as a study in the country schools as well as in a study of the relations between the country school and community life. Afew days ago we were shivering around in overcoats cussing the weather man. Today the average citizen is perspiring generously slapping mosquitos, clawing bugs from his eyes, ears and mouth as he ambles or spins in the evenings. He has shed his flannel unders and has the toothache and neuralgia in his jaw. His rheumatics are troublesome. He sweats and fumes and has a troubled look. The com and garden truck has commenced to grow but the weeds are leaping by bounds. Verily, we re damned if it’s cold and cuss if it’s hot. Hope we’ll be happier when we're angels and become less “undesirable citizens.”

Don t Worry About the Weather We are prepared to keep you cool No matter how hot the weather gets we have the right kind of clothing you need to keep you cool and comfortable Summer Shirts Straw Hots We have a large and splen- 1, Sailors, Panamas and did assortment of cool sum* ny - or slia P e y° u mer negligee shirts, plain or '-AraßSk desire, fancy. /A- Sailors. $1 to $3. 500, sl. $1.50, $2 and $2.50 Lt <ll Pa “ a ““’ tO ’ 7 s °' Bf~i ’ r f&X f A' -f i’ll « L S v Ilf 1 If I t ml fJu J I m Sa Uy ffiirffrwffiilf 13 foe Ulttfl Columbia. GOOdCIOthCS I ■q■ Q| |C ndP pc most convenient and sightly addition to men’s summer wear 111 V I 101 lx HL I IVJtLI O is the invisible suspenders. No one who desires to lock neat can afford to do without them. Come and see them. Summer Underwear wear. Suits, 50c, sl, $1.50, $2. Summer weight Wool $2 per suit Summer Suits and Trousers Summer Trousers, 1.50 to 6.50, ELZEY & VANCE*

Mrs. Rout went to Van Wert yesterday to visit for some time with relatives. Clark Lutz had his thumb cut today on a wire and it was quite painful to him. Mrs. Wright returned to her home at Marion this morning from a visit with relatives in the city. Mrs. Alex Le Brun went to Bluffton this morning to visit her sister Mrs. Joseph Parrish for a few days. Mrs. John Steele went to Bluffton this morning to be the guest of her sister, Miss Joseph Parrish for a few days.' George Cotton went through this city last night on his way to Muncie on business. His son, Frank, is confined to a hospital in Elkhart with heart trouble and will be unable to go to Portland for trial Friday on a charge of perjury and the case will have to be continued. —Bluffton News. Horace Callow and wife of Decatur were in Willshire Sunday, looking at' the room that is to be placed in readiness for the Holthouse drug store that will shortly be opened in Willshire. An item in another column, taken from the Decatur Democrat, says the new drug store is to be thrown open to the public by June 25. —Willshire Herald. Mr. and Mrs. J. D Reiter and son Richard, of Decatur, went home Monday after visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Vantilburg of east Water street. The latter’s other son-in-law, Joseph H. Wrennick and wife of Connersville, were also in the city, Mr. Wrennick leaving Mondayon a business trip to Indianapolis.— Portland Review. This warm weather will make the old swimming hole an attractive place for the small boy. Not only that, it will also increase the desire on the part of the grown young man to take a plunge in the lake or river. Every year there are many sad cases of drowning reported just because there is carelessness about this thing of going swimming. Fear is one of the things that boys and young men never entertain while the swimming season is here, and frequently it is the fellow who is the best swimmer who goes to the bottom and loses his life. The lad who cannot swim has sense enough generally to remain close to shore or in water that he can readily chin. It is a good time to advise people who go swimming in deep water to be careful; the advice may not amount to much but it is good just the same.

Mrs. R. A. Steel, of Craigville, is the guest of her son, D. M. Hower for a few days. A white ladies’ belt was found on Monroe street this afternoon. The owner can have same by calling at this office. Mrs. B. F. Amerine returned to her home at Craigville this morning after visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Russell for a few days W. H. Stults and family, of Wren. Ohio, are visiting W. A. Wetter and family and are on their way to Lakeville, Ind., where Mr. Stults has purchased an elevator. During the electrical storm yesterday afternoon the barn on the Coon Brake place was struck by lightning and a valuable colt was killed. _A. Geuthner is the tenant and he says the colt was worth SIOO. A local horse buyer says that five years will be required by horse breeders to put themselves in position to meet the great demand now made for horses. The fact is that the breeders, to a large extent, ceased raising horses for the market, and that there are few horses to be found. The mistake has been seen, but in the meantime the search is uncertain, and the buyer must pay fancy prices and must demand high prices in the market. The American Express company, which is expected to take over the express business of the United States Express company on the first of July on all New York Central lines over which the United States Express company operates, which includes the Lake Erie and 'Western, at the request of the United States Express company postponed the making of the change until Aug. 1, the latter company, not having its business in shape to transfer. Owing to a law passed by the last legislature a large number of Indiana school teachers will go into summer training schools this year that the}' may be prepared for the enforcement of the new measure, vhich becomes operative in 1908. The law requires that before a person can begin the profession of teaching must have twelve weeks of instruction in a recognized training school. Teachers already in the calling may obtain an increase in salary by taking similar instruction in a training school. A : teacher or a beginner may under the new law take six weeks of this train- i ing this year and six weeks during the summer of 1908. For this reason many teachers are expected to take the six weeks of training this year.

ROAD WILL BREAK CONTRATORS Struck a Tangle Proposition in Wells County. William Lowry, of Fort Recovery, Ohio, with Elijah Huffman, who has the contract for graveling the road through Jackson township, through the lakes, and on which they have had such a hard time getting anything like a road, was down that way yesterday, looking over the ground. He says he is of the opinion that if the contractors are held to their contracts it will break them up financially. Last fall a great deal of dirt was placed on the road preparatory to graveling this summer, and it has sunk clear out of sight already. It is estimated that they would have to fill from a foot to thirty feet in order to get a foundation for the gravel. The contractors take a very gloomy view of the matter, and it is said that many people in Jackson township have expressed as desire to do anything they can to help them get rid of the contract. However this will be pretty hard to do, and the outcome is hard to conjecture. One man from that township said to a Banner reporter today that there had, in former times, been many viewers over that strip trying to locate a road, but that the last set were the first ones that ever decided it could be done. Along the line of the road where the road is expeeted to be built there is about four feet of floating earth, covered over with grass and weeds, but under this several feet of water. —Bluffton Banner.

SEAT SALE BEGAN THIS MORNING The St. Joseph school commencement will occur at the opera house tomorrow evening. The reserved seat sale began at the Holthouse Drug store this morning. Plenty of good seats left however, so get yours marked at once. The program is a good one and a packed house should greet the class of graduates. o ■ LIVE STOCK INSURANCE FAKE Is Being Worked on the Farmers of Indiana. The farmers of Indiana have been given warning to look out for representatives of a live stock insurance company, alleged to be located in South Bend. It is said Miami county farmers have been defrauded by the gentlemen on false pretense. Those making the complaints say

The New Electric Theatre Admission 5 Cents. Program for Wednesday and Thursday: Song—Moses Andrew Jackson, Good bye. And the Dog Came Back. This is a great hit, something funny and worth seeing. KEMP & JAMES, Proprietors. Piles Safely Treated. Touch the Sore Spot. wk \ .7?s C. I -.|l, PILS We callenge the world to produce the equal of HOYT’S IMPROVED PILE REMEDY as a safe and sure cure. This Perfect Pile Ointment quickly stops pain and itching, effectually kills the virus, reduces the inflammation, absorbs the tumors, heals the wounds, and puts a new healthful life into those much abused membranes. It gives the relief you so much desire. Ask the druggist Holthouse Drug Co. By mall upon receipt of price One Dollar. Prepared by C. H. HOYT & CO., Toledo, Ohio. they were misinformed in regard to the concern’s methods of doing business. They; say they were of the opinion that when they paid an initiation fee of JI.OO per hundred of insurance taken that that amount covered all of the expenses except ten cents per hundred on the insurance taken, the assessments being confined to four per annum, per JIOO of the insured valuation. Some farmers have insured their stock against death by sickness or accident in this company and claim that the assessments for the first month were more than they were represented to be for the entire year. o Mrs. R. N. Schwartz, of Ann Arbor, Mich., came to the city today for a visit with friends and reatives. FOR SALE —Three O. I. C. male hogs for sale, two of them fit for service. Pedigrees furnished. P. B. Dykeman, R. R. No. 12, box 66. 250-6 t